CopyCat Alert – Clone site and brand protection monitor

Get notified when someone clones your site on a domain variant or hijacks your brand in AI citations.

Problem

A developer on HN found their site prepfully.com pixel-copied on .live and .info domains, and the clone was hijacking SEO and even appearing in Claude citations. There is no cheap, easy tool to continuously monitor domain variants and content mirrors.

Solution

A lightweight monitoring service: enter your brand name and primary domain, and it regularly searches for similar domain variants using search engines and AI citation sources. It fetches candidate sites, compares content similarity to your site, alerts via email and webhook on clones or SEO hijacks, and provides takedown request templates.

Users

Indie developers, small SaaS founders, and small business owners with a brand website.

MVP

User adds brand name and primary domain; system daily searches common TLD variants and typosquats; fetches candidate homepages and key pages, computes text similarity; sends alert emails above a threshold; provides simple DMCA/takedown letter templates.

Revenue

Free tier monitors one brand; paid tier supports multiple brands, real-time alerts, and competitor variant monitoring via subscription.

Why now

AI citations make clone sites more visible, and domain registration is dirt cheap. Small teams lack brand protection budgets and need automation.